How to use lights in jcomponents?

Question

Is it possible to add lights to jcomponents...? especially as an action on the jcomponent.

I mean something beyond changing background color of the component for example a jbutton... I mean something like what we see in windows 7 components or actions done in xaml...

Answer 1

You might get some ideas from this example using varied saturation or this example using alpha. A slowly changing GradientPaint might be useful, too.